Diversity Council Australia is set to release a new solution to Australia's labour shortage by giving employers the tools to unlock a talent pool of over 3 million underleveraged jobseekers.
Staff shortages remain a key concern for businesses in 2023, with job vacancies still 89% higher than pre-pandemic levels and record low unemployment creating a perfect storm for employers.
To combat this, DCA has partnered with Jobsbank to translate our evidence-based research into a set of practical, interactive tools informed by our groundbreaking Inclusive Recruitment at Work report.
Launched in October last year, the report revealed outdated recruitment practices are locking more than 3 million jobseekers out the labour market, representing an untapped talent pool disproportionately made up of marginalised groups.
Inclusive recruitment practices benefit both jobseekers and employers by helping to foster a more inclusive and diverse workforce which research shows is not only good for reputation, but also significantly increases performance, wellbeing, and innovation as well as staff retention and attraction.
DCA's new Inclusive Recruitment Tools are designed to help employers reflect on how they can make their recruitment processes more inclusive, covering everything from job descriptions to post-interviews.
They include:
- The Inclusive Recruitment Quiz: An education-based questionnaire to assess knowledge of best practice inclusive recruitment processes. The quiz is designed for learning purposes, with results presented as a
